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Given a specific product development initiative, how would I organize a project and conduct work, through all of the phases from discovery through monitoring. This was a take-home question, and was quite open-ended.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at HackerOne

3.6
Nov 11, 2024

Given a specific product development initiative, how would I organize a project and conduct work, through all of the phases from discovery through monitoring. This was a take-home question, and was quite open-ended.

I was asked mainly on what was on my resume and a little on the technologies in the job description. I had recently prepared for CCNAv3, so I was up-to-date on some of the technologies in the job description and so things went smoothly. I was also asked questions on TCL as that was the foundation language they were using (other than mainly using Python, Robot). I did not work on Python /Robot so no questions were asked on those. I had Perl also on my resume but no questions on that.
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Senior Staff Engineer

Interviewed at ADTRAN

3.7
Jun 13, 2017

I was asked mainly on what was on my resume and a little on the technologies in the job description. I had recently prepared for CCNAv3, so I was up-to-date on some of the technologies in the job description and so things went smoothly. I was also asked questions on TCL as that was the foundation language they were using (other than mainly using Python, Robot). I did not work on Python /Robot so no questions were asked on those. I had Perl also on my resume but no questions on that.

Director of QA questions were hypothetical situations on what I would do as far as testing a certain way, how would I manage that in CICD, what types of quality gates would I use, how would I use that data to improve code coverage and to get faster feedback to devs, etc.
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Staff QA Automation Engineer

Interviewed at Credit Acceptance

4
Feb 12, 2024

Director of QA questions were hypothetical situations on what I would do as far as testing a certain way, how would I manage that in CICD, what types of quality gates would I use, how would I use that data to improve code coverage and to get faster feedback to devs, etc.

I do not recall any difficult questions. The most tricky question asked by most interviewers is: What do you see yourself doing in the future? Its difficult because not only there is no right answer, but the same answer can be perceived as positive by one interviewer and negative by the other.
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Staff Process Engineer

Interviewed at Lam Research

4.1
Dec 13, 2013

I do not recall any difficult questions. The most tricky question asked by most interviewers is: What do you see yourself doing in the future? Its difficult because not only there is no right answer, but the same answer can be perceived as positive by one interviewer and negative by the other.

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